This post is a pretty early push for a film I am incredibly excited to see: Joachim Trier’s Thelma, showing at the Indiana University Cinema on January 5 and 6, 2018. Yes, these screenings are still weeks away, but I wholeheartedly believe my anticipation for seeing a film that The Independent calls “a new take… Read more »
Born in 1941, Faye Dunaway is a Hollywood classic. Although more of the second or third generation of old Hollywood (like Jane Fonda or Natalie Wood), she, like the others, had the opportunity to work with many of the older, classical Hollywood stars. Arguably, most of Dunaway’s best work was released in the 1960s and… Read more »
The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) has been preserving and digitizing, restoring, archiving, acquiring material, and working with researchers for years now. At the beginning of last summer, IULMIA moved to its new space in Wells Library; alongside the library’s Media Services and the Black Film Center/Archive there are now spaces (through… Read more »
I have a certain love for the sci-fi Western “genre,” from Back to the Future III (1990) to Joss Whedon’s Firefly (2002-2003) and Serenity (2005), as well as HBO’s remake of Michael Crichton’s Westworld (2016 – ). I call it a “genre” because many people might call it a hybrid, and not a full-blown… Read more »
*BEWARE OF SPOILERS BELOW* One of my earliest memories is an afternoon spent at my uncle’s house watching Rob Reiner’s 1987 film The Princess Bride with my parents and my uncle. I must have been young, because it’s a hazy memory—in that way memories of early childhood can be. What I do remember clearly, however, is… Read more »
George Cukor, known as the “woman’s director” during Hollywood’s Studio Era, seems to have been a part of a vast number of Hollywood classics. He is, in fact, one of my own favorite directors, a handful of his films sitting in my list of favorites. It’s no wonder then that in my three years co-coordinating… Read more »